Belt attaching means for garments



Feb. 2, 1943., J. SCHNEIDER BELT ATTACHING MEANS FOR GARMENTS Filed Dec..5, 19'41 I nnentor wzas \Tcfineaaer j Ctttorne Patented Feb. 2, 1943UNITED STATES ATEN OFFICE 2,310,040 BELT ATTACHING MEANS FOR GARMENTSJulius Schneider, Omaha, Nebr.

Application December 3, 1941, Serial No. 421,502

1 Claim.

The invention relates to belt attaching means for attaching belts to theinside of garments, for instance, trousers, slacks and the like, and hasfor its object to provide detachable button carried members within thegarment, and through which the belt passes in a position below thebuttons so that said belt may be easily removed and placed withinanother garment when desired.

A further object is to provide an interior belt within a garmentsupported on semiflexible tabs 01' members supported on buttons, 50 thetabs and belt can be easily removed from within the garment, and at thesame time will not be necessary to change the garment construction foradapting the garment for the reception of the belt.

A further object is to position the button holes in the flexible membersso that after the flexible members are placed thereon, and the beltpassed therethrough, the buttons will positively prevent the upwarddisplacement of the tabs.

A further object is to provide the semiflexible members with spacedvertical slots through which the belt is passed.

With the above and other objects in view the invention resides in thecombination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth, shown inthe drawing, described and claimed, it being understood that changes inthe precise embodiment of the invention may be made within the scope ofwhat is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing: I

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper end of a pair of slacks ortrousers, showing the belt applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the flexible members.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on line 3--3 ofFigure 1.

Figure 4 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a view in elevation of a portion of the garment and one ofthe flexible members, showing the belt extending therethrough.

Figure 6 is a view in elevation of a modified form of flexible member,showing a horizontal button hole therein.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral l designates the waistband of apair of slacks 2, however it is to be understood the device may be usedwith trousers or other garments, where it is desired to conceal the beltfrom view. This is particularly true of slacks.

The belt 3 is of conventional construction and provided with a buckle 4for the reception of the apertured end 5 of the belt.

In devices of this kind heretofore constructed they have involved themodification of the waistband of the garment, hence the belt supportingmeans is not interchangeable from garment to garment. To overcome thisdifiiculty the semiflexible belt supporting members 6,. preferablyformed of leather, are provided with vertically elongated button holes 1which receive the usual spaced buttons 8 on the inner side of thewaistband of the garment. The flexible members 6 are provided withspaced vertical openings 9 through which the belt is passed, and throughwhich the belt will slide during the tightening operation. The members 6are placed on the buttons 8 after they have been properly adjusted onthe belt and the buttons passed through the button holes 1 into aposition above the upper edge of the belt, clearly shown in Figure l,and when in this position the belt, at its upper edge ID, will be in theplane of the button with the button securing means H in the upper endsof the button holes 1, therefore upward displacement of the belt and theflexible members will be prevented during the belt tightening operation.When it is desired to remove the belt and the supporting means from thebuttons it will only be necessary to bend the upper edge In of the beltoutwardly at the buttons and unbutton th flexible members. It'will benoted that the belt has a slight bend over the central bar l2 of eachmember 6, however this is not sufficient bend to prevent the belt fromsliding during the tightening operation.

Referring to Figure 6, the upper end of the flexible member 6 isprovided with a horizontal button hole 1a, which may be desirable insome types of garments.

From the above it will be seen that a belt attaching means is providedwhereby a belt may be attached to the inner side of a garment withoutmodifying the construction of the garment, and the attaching means,along with the belt, may be easily detached and applied to anothergarment when desired. It will also be seen that the flexible members 6may be adjusted towards and away from each other according to thespacing of the supporting buttons, which would vary in differentgarments.

The invention having been set forth what is claimed as new and usefulis:

In a belt, slides, each slide comprising a body member having spacedvertical slots forming a ton hole, said button having a connection tothe garment which connection engages the upper end of the button holewhen the lower side of the button is in engagement with the upper edgeof the belt, whereby the body member will be positively held on thebutton and against upward displacement.

JULIUS SCHNEIDER.

